Though only a relatively short walk separated it from my own part of town, its character was wholly foreign to me.

Forced to realize that this was the end of a very short line I scanned a road marker and discovered what the end of a slightly longer line would be for the old Mexican: Moriarty, New Mexico.

He was in his early forties, rather short and very compactly built, and with a manner that was reserved and stiff despite his efforts to adapt himself to American ways.

A little man with a `` a dark copper color '' skin, he was wearing `` calico trousers and a white cotton short gown ''.

The total operation was a construction project comparable in magnitude with the Panama Canal, but in 1917 time was in short supply ; ;

There was no time in the short Mexican encounter to evolve a solution but the area provided a proving ground for new departures in the near future.

Later, rising ninety, he was beset by publishers for the story of his life and miracles, as he put it, but, calling himself the Needy Knife-grinder, he had spent his time writing short articles and long letters and could not get even a small popular book done.

But he, as I can now retort, was the man who could see so short a distance ahead that after a visit to Russia he gave voice to the famous exclamation: `` I have seen the future and it works ''.

Upon a visit to a local junior college last week, I was shocked to see the young ladies wearing short shorts and the young men wearing Bermuda shorts.

the days seemed short, perhaps because his routine was, each day, almost the same.

He had preached a short sermon, trying to talk man-to-man to the audience, to tell them who he was, what he had done in Macon and Birmingham, and what he proposed to do here.

Life was a short play of tenebrous shadows.

His steps were short and stiff, and, with his head thrown back, his progress was a supercilious strut.

In the cruel clearness of her memory the boy remained unchanged, quick with the delight of laughter, and the pain with which she recalled that short destroyed childhood was still unendurable to her.

Why it was ever forgotten for even a moment I cannot say because it works perfectly for everyone, no matter whether he has short or long thigh-bone lengths!!

But during the last several years boats were launched in areas where, a short time ago, the only water to be found was in wells and watering troughs for livestock.

From proud pool-owners to perpetual hosts and handymen was a short step -- no more than the change from city clothes to trunks.

He devised a detonating fuse in which a short wire was caused to glow by an electric current.

There was a short pause for reflection.

One growth center in a short bone -- distal phalanx of the second finger -- was chosen as an example for discussion here, primarily because epiphyseal-diaphyseal fusion, the maturity indicator for Completion in long and short bones, occurs in this center for girls near the menarche and for boys near their comparable pubescent stage.

In short, scientific sampling was introduced in place of subjective sampling.

In short, it was centered around learning how to develop a more sensitive empathy.

The Lewis structure of the carbonate ion has two ( long ) single bonds to negative oxygen atoms, and one short double bond to a neutral oxygen

Fortunately, the short ranges and spread of shot provide a significant overlap, so a small error in regulation in a double will often be too small to be noticed.

The southern region of Nigeria experiences a double rainfall maxima characterised by two high rainfall peaks, with a short dry season and a longer dry season falling between and after each peaks.

In contrast, single-stranded RNA and DNA molecules are not constrained to a regular double helix, and can adopt highly complex three-dimensional structures that are based on short stretches of intramolecular base-paired sequences that include both Watson-Crick and noncanonical base pairs, as well as a wide range of complex tertiary interactions.

Unlike DNA, their structures do not consist of long double helices but rather collections of short helices packed together into structures akin to proteins.

In the nightcap came his first extra-base hit, a 6th-inning double, as well as another single, which, in conjunction with aggressive base-running, triggered a 2-run, 8th-inning rally, narrowing the Dodgers ' lead to one ; one inning later, the Pirates ' comeback would fall one run short, with the go-ahead run on base, and Clemente on deck.

In order to make the Germans aim short, the British used the double agents to exaggerate the number of V-1s falling in the north and west of London and not to report, when possible, those in the south and east.

The Yom Kippur confessional consists of two parts: a short confession beginning with the word Ashamnu ( אשמנו, " we have sinned "), which is a series of words describing sin arranged according to the aleph-bet, and a long confession, beginning with the words Al Cheyt ( על חטא, " for the sin "), which is a set of 26 double acrostics, also arranged according to the aleph-bet, enumerating a range of sins.

She has wonderful eyes, but she has a double chin and an overdeveloped chest, and she ’ s rather short in the leg.

About beyond the walls of the city of Verdun was an outer double circular ring of 18 large underground forts ( not including 12 smaller forts or redoubts ), many of them featuring retractable / rotating artillery turrets equipped with short and short fortress cannons.

The Rambling Syd sketches generally began with a short discourse on the nature of the song, which would inexorably follow ; these discourses and the songs involved suggestivity and double entendre.

The double live album package includes an Elric short story.

But " be " is doing double duty, and this means that any attempt to read the clue cryptically in the form " indicator " fails: if " be " is part of the anagram indicator, then the fodder is too short, but if it is part of the fodder, there is no anagram indicator ; to be a correct clue it would have to be " Hat could be be dry ( 5 )", which is ungrammatical.

It was original double short sprint length at the Ancient Olympia distance, known as the Diaulos.

As a guitarist Perkins used: finger picking, imitations of the pedal steel guitar, right-handed damping ( muffling strings near the bridge with the palm ), arpeggios, advantageous use of open strings, single and double string bending ( pushing strings across the neck to raise their pitch ), chromaticism ( using notes outside of the scale ), country and blue licks, and tritone and other tonality clashing licks ( short phrases that include notes from other keys and move in logical, often symmetric patterns ).

A new programming scheme developed that would soon become standard practice: a newsreel, a short and / or a serial, and a cartoon, followed by a double feature.

DeBartolo recounts Gaines ' generosity to contributors ( e. g., the Mad trips ), his insistence on Mads " cheap " image ( at one point paying double the amount to keep Mad on low-quality paper although it was in short supply ) and his offbeat methods for running a magazine.

Standard Hungarian has 14 vowels in a symmetrical system: seven short vowels ( a, e, i, o, ö, u, ü ) and seven long ones, which are written with an acute accent in the case of á, é, í, ó, ú, and with the double acute in the case of ő, ű. Vowel length has phonemic significance in Hungarian, that is, it distinguishes different words and grammatical forms.

* On German-language maps, a double breve is often used in abbreviated placenames that end in, short for-burg, a common suffix originally meaning “ castle ”.

The tagline of the show, seen in the opening credits, is " Private Dick / Family Man " (" dick " being short for " detective ", as well as serving as a double entendre ).

Cycles as short as 9 years and as long as 14 years have been observed, and in the double cycle of 1784-1799 one of the two component cycles had to be less than 8 years in length.

On a hit and run, Walker hit a double to very short left-center field.

* In Edgar Allan Poe's short story " William Wilson " ( 1839 ), a man is followed by his double.